Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-25
The Spokane Falls Chronicle urges
the name of Idaho to the proposed
new state of Washington.

Alfred Cowles, aged 100 years,
still performing his duties as jastic
Of the peace at Poway, Cal.
The Richmond Hotel and st. Jane
Hall, in Buffalo, N. Y, we're destroy
ed by FIRE and persons were burned
to death 81, injured and 5 missing.
Chauncy NJ. Depew, of the New
York Central and Hudson Railroad
has offered prize OF $500 for the
best device for heating cars without
stoves.
Time Is always represented carry
sng scythe, and we suppose he will
continue to carry this primitive agri-
cultural implement until time shall
be NO mower.--I Boston Courier.
Detectives OF Portland now claim
that they have reliable information
that Willis Skif, the merchant of
Union who disappeared mysteriously
last fall, was not murdered, but
skipped on account of his debts.
at is amusing" says Tucherman,
ito detect character in the vocabu-
larry OF each person. The adjectives
habitnaiIv used, like the inscriptions
on thermometer, indicate the tenn
permanent"
The Rev. Justin ID. Fulton, well
known Baptist clergyman, is about to
abandon his present pulpit in Brook
lyn and engage in the work Of the
convention OF the Catholics OF this
country.
A brother OF Anarchist Spies, who
served the latter as proxy in the
Vanzandt marriage, is now urged to
go step further and die for him.
He refuses, however, and says he'll
be hanged If he does.
The election OF Democrat for
United States Senator in New Jersey
divides the Senate equally between
the two parties in the Fiftieth Con-
gress, that is counting Riddleberger
As a Republican. This is by no
means certainty.
1t is rumored in London that DR..
Parker, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's
intimate friend in England, will be
asked to succeed him In Plymouth
Chnrch. DIR. Parker is a man of the
Beecher type, and is the second most
popular preacher in London.
But few years ago there was no
temperance organization in China.
Now a temperance hotel is advertised
in Hong Kong, and at Shanghi there
is lodge OF Good Templars, aud a
good, able temperance paper publish
ed weekly, called the Temperance
Union.
Application has been made to the
Treasury Department for the landing
at San Francisco of Chinese Joss
for Joss House. Free entry is
claimed on the ground that the joss
comes under the classification of ina
ges and regalia for religious associa-
tions. The Joss is l5o feet long and
is composed OF wood, paper tinsel,
metal, etc.
Ladd's artesian we'll in Portland is
now down 1850 feet. Last week the
drill brought up some specimens of
tropical timber among them being
almond shells Of perfect form, and
wood and bark Of the sawke species.
Considering the great depth at which
these formations were brought from,
this is one of the most remarkable
geological discoveries of the age
lex.
Several well known moneyed men
OF California, among them J G. Flood,
George G. Perkins, Jerome A Fill
more have purchased the Bullion Beck
mine in the Tiutie Mining District,
about 100 miles south Of Salt Lake
City. This mine has for many years
belonged to the Mormon Church, but
the recently enacted laws of Congress
to suppress polygamy and crush the
power of the church, have compelled
them to dispose of all their property,
and the syndicate has purchased the
Utah mine.
The Cassia County Times thus
wades into the Congregational minis
tiers of Chicago: ain all the earth
there never was more heathenish
exhibition than was given by pro-
fessed disciples of Christ in Chicago.
While Beecher lay dying in the City
of Churches, the Congregational min